CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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438 km from Corund to Corund, about 8 h 37 of riding. On the way it passes Băile Homorod - Cekend, Baraolt - Véczer, Reci - Cetate and Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Székely Land, in the eastern part of Transylvania, is the home of a Hungarian-speaking community whose ancestors were placed here in the Middle Ages to guard the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the same job had been done a thousand years earlier by the Romans. Near the village of Inlăceni, in the hills of Harghita county, stand the remains of a Roman fort, one of the eastern bastions of Dacia, facing the Carpathians and the passes beyond. The stone walls, gates and corner towers can still be traced in a meadow on a hilltop, and the setting, with forests all around and the mountains on the horizon, is one of the most beautiful of all the sites on the Dacian frontier listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Inlăceni - Cetate write-up.
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Inlăceni - Cetate is where the day begins. Next is Băile Homorod - Cekend.
Deep in the forests of Harghita county, in the heart of the Székely Land, the small spa of Băile Homorod sits in a valley among spruce and beech, with wooden villas, mineral springs and the smell of resin in the air. The springs here produce borvíz, naturally carbonated mineral water, which the Székely people drink as their everyday water and believe has healing powers. Cekend is the name attached to a nearby hill site on the eastern line of Roman Dacia's frontier, one of hundreds of components listed together as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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Băile Homorod - Cekend comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baraolt - Véczer.
In Baraolt you are more likely to hear Hungarian than Romanian. This small town lies in Covasna County, in the heart of the Székely Land, where the Székely Hungarian community has lived for centuries, with its own traditions, carved wooden gates, Calvinist and Catholic churches and a fierce sense of identity. Véczer, near Baraolt, is one of the points on the eastern frontier of Roman Dacia, where small forts and watchtowers watched over the passes through the eastern Carpathians, and it belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire listing for Dacia, added by UNESCO in 2024.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Baraolt - Véczer. Next is Reci - Cetate.
Reci lies on the flat floor of the Târgu Secuiesc basin, in Covasna county, where the Olt river meanders between mountains in the heart of the Szekler Land, the Hungarian-speaking region of eastern Transylvania. The site known as Reci - Cetate, the fortress, belongs to the eastern line of the Roman frontier in Dacia, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire inscribed in 2024. The Romans guarded the passes through the Carpathians with forts and towers here, though today the site is little more than a raised area in the fields.
Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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Reci - Cetate, about halfway. Next is Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu.
There is a narrow gap in the Carpathians where Szeklerland meets the old principality of Moldavia, and the Romans, who valued narrow gaps, named their fort there Angustia, simply the narrow place. The little town of Bretcu sits on the site, in Covasna county, in a landscape of low forested mountains and wide hay meadows. The fort controlled the pass on the eastern frontier of the province of Dacia and was manned by auxiliary troops, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Roman frontiers. What survives is mostly earthworks and traces of the walls, with a few explanatory signs.
Read the complete Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu write-up.
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Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Reci - Cetate.
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Read the complete Reci - Cetate write-up.
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back through Reci - Cetate comes up about 264 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Baraolt - Véczer.
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Read the complete Baraolt - Véczer write-up.
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about 326 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Baraolt - Véczer. Next is back through Băile Homorod - Cekend.
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Read the complete Băile Homorod - Cekend write-up.
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back through Băile Homorod - Cekend, late in the day. Next is Inlăceni - Cetate.
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Read the complete Inlăceni - Cetate write-up.
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The route ends here after 438 km.
Inlăceni - Cetate → Băile Homorod - Cekend is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Băile Homorod - Cekend → Baraolt - Véczer is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baraolt - Véczer → Reci - Cetate is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Reci - Cetate → Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brețcu - Angustia / Cetatea doamnei Venetu → back through Reci - Cetate is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Reci - Cetate → back through Baraolt - Véczer is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baraolt - Véczer → back through Băile Homorod - Cekend is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Băile Homorod - Cekend → Inlăceni - Cetate is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.